CONFLICTS > U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union) [1922-1991
- In 1917, political leaders, soldiers, and factory workers forced Czar Nicholas II to give up the throne.
- Russia was a communist state -- a country whose government has strong control over the economy and society as a whole
- people who did not like Stalin's actions were killed/sent to the camps in Siberia {icy and freezing deathly hollows)
- factories became inefficient and produced poor quality goods
- ethnic groups wanted to leave
- Cold War
- united states did not like the SU actions and made the cold was
- World War I
- became a communist state